Other Hong Kong/Taiwan

8 inch Speedboat

A nice sleek looking Commander boat with a detachable outboard motor. Powered by 2 C cells , it has the added feature of working headlights. Lovely graphics on the box.

Catamaran with air propeller.

Clifford Hydroplane 7 inches with airscrew motor. Powered by 2 Penlite (AA) batteries.

Guiterman Electric Speedboat

9" Harrow speedbird. Powered by two 'AA' cells. I have not seen many of these about. Has 'Ray's' with a small crown stamped on the underside of the hull with the the number 1776. Cells are under the removable deck behind the cockpit. The switch is nice small chromed lever in the cockpit between the seats. A very pleasing little boat. A nice example of the very underestimated in my opinion Hong Kong toy boats.

A lovely little cabin cruiser with , again , lovely graphics on the box.

8 inch Alaska Tanker powered by 1 penlite (AA) battery.

A tug and a trawler both with the 'submarine' motor. Uses one Penlite / HP7 battery. The modern equivalent is the AA.
They positively 'whiz' across the pool. Not particularly scale speed , but fun to watch !

9 inch Tug Boat with detachable submarine motor. Powered by one penlite (AA) battery.

9 inch long pleasure cruiser powered by 2 'AA' penlite batteries. Has a switch at the rear of the cabin which gives stop in the centre , forward and reverse.  

Lovely little 7 and half inched hulled speedboat. Uses 1 'C' cell. The battery seems a little large for such a small boat , but she sails well with it , albeit a little low at the stern.
I would have thought an AA or even an AAA battery would have suited better. With today's batteries being far superior to the batteries available when these toys were made , it is better to use a battery adaptor that allows one to use a physically smaller battery. This boat performs very nicely with a AAA battery.
It states on the box 'You can put the battery in the boat'. Where else ! 'Moulded in tough plastic'. No 372. The illustration of a young man and lady is lovely and adds to the period charm of the toy.

9 inch container ship

Oh boy , it's a Lincoln toy ! Lincoln Catamaran powered by 2 HP11'C' cells , one under each cover of the pontoons. Motor powers the air propeller. 8 1/2 inches long. There's a short video of the boat running. The motor is a bit noisy and I have put a tiny amount of WD40 on it. One of the boats you don't see very often.

Comet Hydroplane 12 inches with air propeller. A popular toy in its , and still is a popular collectors' toy today.

Scalex Queen Elizabeth 2 with submersible torpedo motor . 18 inches in length. Missing foremast and all decals. Quite a rare boat. Manufactured in Hong Kong , but branded by an English company. It was at the time increasingly common for UK companies to outsource manufacturing to countries that had cheaper manufacturing costs then UK companies.

Comet Hydroplane 12 inches with air propeller

Aircraft Carrier. Powered by 2 HP11 / C batteries. Unusual in that you started the motor by flicking the propeller. The motor is stopped with your fingers too. The engine sound is provided by a metal strip being flicked by a plastic protrusion on the propeller shaft. The hull has drain holes at the rear enabling any water ingress to be drained out after each voyage.

8 inch Speedboat

A lovely little cabin cruiser. Typically of a lot of Empire Made , Hong Kong boats , it has taken its styling from English made toys. This example looks like a loosely scaled down version of the clockwork Penguin Solent cruiser.

Clifford Hydroplane 7 inches with outboard motor. Powered by 2 Penlite (AA) batteries.

Clifford Speedboat 313 . Powered by 2 Penlite (AA) batteries.

9 inch Air Sea Rescue Launch powered by 2 'AA' penlite batteries. Has a switch at the rear of the cabin which gives stop in the centre , forward and reverse.  Part No. R3337

A lovely little cabin cruiser with a nice graphic showing London Bridge.

Hydroplane Boat

9 inch Harbour Master Tug with hooting sound. Video of boat out of water with hooting sound.

9 inch Trawler with 'flick and go' propeller.

Hong Kong Laurie toys 8 inch speedboat. Unfortunately missing a couple of parts , but nevertheless it is nice to have any example of these less than common boats. Powered by 2 HP7 'AA' cells , it has forward and reverse controlled by the white lever at the stern of the boat.

A lovely little boat , albeit incomplete. Missing its cabin rails.

9 inch Speedboat . 2 in 1 speedboat , so called because you could sail it as an open top speedboat or as a cabin cruiser as shown in the gallery.

KIng Tug Boat K3224. Powered by 2 C cells. As you can see, it has a perforated panel that should be removed before it is displayed for sale.

Dinghy and outboard marked 250. Another boat you don't see every day.

Twin propellered 12 inch cabin cruiser

12 inch Ferry with Submersible Motor

12 inch Solar Powered Speedboat . I can't comment on its operation , as I haven't tried it.

Battleship. Powered by 2 HP11 / C batteries. Unusual in that you started the motor by flicking the propeller. The motor is stopped with your fingers too. The engine sound is provided by a metal strip being flicked by a plastic protrusion on the propeller shaft. The hull has drain holes at the rear enabling any water ingress to be drained out after each voyage. My grandmother bought me one of these in the 1970s.